Less than a week after the 7.0 earthquake struck in Haiti, I landed in Port-au-Prince to volunteer on an aid mission.  I was profoundly moved and affected by the people and places that I saw.  TheTakeaway.org published my brief blog post on part of the time I spent in Haiti, at a hospital treating hundreds of victims.  To read more, click here.
          More photos from my trip can be found here.
 
 
Tucked into the parking lot of the New Fulton Fish Market in Hunts Point is the city’s only wholesale farmers market—and now it’s getting a boost from a $296,000 grant to the Council on the Environment of New York City, which runs farmers markets in all five boroughs.  Continue reading here.